Crime at Bedtime

On January 6, 2026, detectives caught Jonathan Gerlach, 34, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, leaving Mount Moriah Cemetery near Philadelphia with a burlap bag containing the mummified remains of two small children and three skulls. A search of his home revealed over 100 human skulls, mummified hands and feet, decomposing torsos—some hanging from the ceiling—and jewellery from graves. His storage unit contained eight more complete corpses. Between November 2025 and January 2026, Gerlach had systematically broken into 26 mausoleums and underground vaults, rappelling down ropes, smashing marble floors, stealing skeletal remains dating from 200 years old to months-old infants. On Instagram as "deadshitdaddy," he posted 100+ images of human skulls for sale. A Facebook group member thanked him for a bag made of human skin. Gerlach faces 574 charges and is held on $1 million bail. The investigation continues: Were the remains shipped across state lines? Who were the buyers? And can the dead finally be returned to rest in peace?
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In July 2002, NBA champion Bison Dele sailed from Tahiti aboard his catamaran, the Hakuna Matata, with his girlfriend Serena Karlan, French captain Bertrand Saldo, and his troubled older brother Miles Dabord. On July 8, all communication ceased. Twelve days later, the boat returned to Tahiti—renamed, repainted, with patched bullet holes—and only Miles stepped off. Two months later, he tried to buy $152,000 in gold using Bison's passport. Before authorities could question him, Miles overdosed on insulin in Mexico and died without regaining consciousness. He'd confessed to his girlfriend that a fight had spiraled into three deaths, bodies weighted and thrown overboard. But FBI forensics found no evidence supporting his story. Was it murder for money, or a tragic accident gone wrong? The bodies were never found, and the Pacific Ocean keeps its secrets.
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On April 10, 2001, an explosion destroyed the Fisher family home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Inside, firefighters found Mary Fisher, 38, shot in the back of the head with her throat slit, and her two children—Brittney, 12, and Bobby, 10—with their throats slit in their beds. The gas line had been deliberately severed, accelerant poured in the bedrooms, a candle used as a delayed fuse. Missing: Robert William Fisher, 40, the family's husband and father. Ten days later, his Toyota 4Runner was found in Tonto National Forest with the family dog Blue alive underneath—suggesting Fisher got into another vehicle. New evidence from a 2024 podcast reveals the 4Runner was seen at the house at 3:30 AM and 5:30 AM, meaning Fisher only had a 3-hour head start, not the 10-12 hours previously believed. Fisher was a controlling Navy veteran who'd had an affair, contemplated suicide after Mary kicked him out, and told his pastor weeks before the murders that Mary was planning to divorce him. He was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted in 2002, removed in 2021, but remains a wanted fugitive with a $100,000 reward. If alive, he'd be 63. The question: Did he die in the wilderness by suicide, or is he living under a new identity?
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In December 2019, security footage at Nashville's new Downtown Detention Center showed the same man entering the building again and again—sometimes dressed as a supervisor with a clipboard, other times as a labourer hauling buckets. Cameras caught him drilling into walls, grinding, painting. He occasionally covered cameras, but mostly let himself be recorded.

When two master keys went missing, investigators pulled thousands of hours of surveillance. The man had been coming since August. At least ten separate visits. Moving methodically through different sections of the facility.

On 4 January 2020, police arrested 50-year-old Alexander Friedmann outside the building. In his pocket was a hand-drawn schematic of the detention centre. He tried to eat it.

When investigators searched the walls, they found three loaded handguns, ammunition, handcuff keys, razor blades, and hacksaw blades—all easily accessible to inmates once the facility opened. At Friedmann's home, they found 23 more guns, body armour, grenade pouches, and a concrete bunker with grout work matching the jail.
But here's what made it disturbing: Alex Friedmann wasn't a criminal mastermind. He was one of Tennessee's most prominent prison reform advocates. He'd testified before Congress. Worked for Bernie Sanders' campaign. Spent 20 years fighting for inmates' rights—and worked closely with the very sheriff whose jail he'd just sabotaged.

Was this trauma or terrorism? The answer may never be known.
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On a snowy December night in 1949, 68-year-old James Tedford boarded a bus in Vermont, heading home to the Bennington Soldiers' Home. Fourteen passengers and the driver saw him sleeping peacefully in his seat at the last stop before Bennington. But when the bus pulled into the station, Tedford was gone—his luggage still in the rack, an open timetable on his empty seat. No one saw him leave. No one heard the door open. He had simply vanished.

Three years earlier to the day, a college student had disappeared on a hiking trail in the same area. A year before that, an experienced hunting guide had vanished in the same mountains. This was the Bennington Triangle—a remote corner of Vermont where people seemed to slip out of reality itself.

Skeptics point to conflicting witness accounts and sightings in nearby Brandon. They note Tedford's severe depression and his statement that he "never intended to return." But how does a man disappear from a bus full of witnesses? And why has no trace of him ever been found in seventy-five years?

Did James Tedford walk into the wilderness in a moment of despair? Or did something far stranger claim him on that winter night in the mountains?
Tonight, we explore the mystery of the man who vanished from a moving bus.
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